Use Game Center to play with friends

Transport friend requests, manage your profile, earn achievements, and compete on leaderboards across devices using Game Heart.

Create a Game Center profile

Learn how to create a profile with a personalized Memoji and customized initials.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon

  1. Open Settings. Scroll to Game Center, then tap it.
  2. If Game Center isn't on, plow it on, and so sign in with your Apple ID.*
    iPhone Game Center Settings screen
  3. Tap the Nickname field to enter a name that your friends will come across when you play games together. If you lot can't think of a name, y'all can choose i of the randomly generated suggestions.
  4. To personalize the movie that shows with your nickname, tap Edit in the circle at the top of the page. From here, you can create a Memoji, use an existing ane, or customize how your nickname's initials appear.

On your Mac

  1. Open the App Shop app.
  2. If Game Center isn't on, turn it on, and then sign in with your Apple ID.*
  3. Choose Apple tree bill of fare  > Organization Preferences, then click Cyberspace Accounts.
  4. To enter a name that your friends volition see when y'all play games together, click your Game Centre ID, then click Details. If you lot can't recollect of a proper noun, you lot can cull one of the randomly generated suggestions.
    macOS System Preferences Game Center details screen
  5. To personalize the picture show that shows with your nickname, go dorsum to Settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Scroll to Game Centre, then tap it. From here, you can create a Memoji, use an existing i, or customize how your nickname'due south initials announced.

Learn how your Game Centre profile is used

Add friends

You can add friends in Game Center.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Open Settings. Roll to Game Heart, then tap it.
  2. Tap Friends.
  3. Tap Add Friends.
  4. Enter the phone number or email of the person that you want to invite to be friends in Game Center, or tap the Add button to invite i of your contacts. Once that person accepts the request through the Messages app, you'll be able to meet them on your list of friends.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple card  > System Preferences, and then click Internet Accounts.
  2. Click your Game Centre ID.
  3. Click Add together Friends.
  4. Enter the phone number or email of the person that you lot want to invite to be friends in Game Center, or click the Add together button to invite one of your contacts. Once that person accepts the request through the Letters app, you lot'll be able to come across them on your list of friends.

Remove friends or study Game Middle users

Learn how to stop being friends with someone in Game Middle.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Open up Settings. Curl to Game Center, then tap it.
  2. Tap Friends to encounter a listing of users who you're friends with and users who you lot've recently played with.
  3. Swipe left over the user'southward name to reveal more options.
    iPhone Game Center Friends screen with Report and Remove options shown

Tap Remove to cease existence friends with someone in Game Heart. This removes you from their list of friends also.To report a profile for cheating, inappropriate content, or another issue, tap Report and follow the onscreen instructions.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > Organization Preferences, and so click Internet Accounts.
  2. Click your Game Center ID to see a list of users who you lot're friends with and users who yous've recently played with.
  3. Click the user proper noun of the user who you desire to remove.
  4. Click Remove to stop being friends with someone in Game Centre. This removes you from their listing of friends as well. To study a profile for cheating, inappropriate content, or some other issue, click Report and follow the onscreen instructions.

* If you see a nickname or other information already gear up, you might already have a Game Center profile. To verify that you're signed in with your Apple ID on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on, become to Settings and look for your Apple ID. To verify that you're signed in with your Apple ID on your Mac, cull Apple menu  > Organisation Preferences, then click Internet Accounts and look for your Apple ID in the sidebar.

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